Hondertmarck

Fig. 37: Location of the Hondertmarck

This is not a real street but a new complex with an internal square named after a regent family that disappeared from Maastricht in the fourteenth century and that was connected to a Beguine convent that lay behind the first Franciscan church (the current archive), accessible from the Bernardusstraat, formerly Helstraat or Hoogbruggestraat. Beguines were pious women who lived in a community without taking monastic vows. Bogaarden or Begaarden were the male counterparts, just like Cellebroeders. Franciscan monks (a mendicant order that inhabited the Franciscan monastery) are also called Minor Friars (o.f.m. = ordo fratrum minorum). The Hondertmarck (not market!) is a modern complex, which was built around 1982 on the site of the Maastricht bread factory (Mabro), which in turn was housed on the grounds and in the buildings of the claustral houses 7 and 8.

Fig. 46: The Hondertmarck today.

Reference: 

Schaepkens van Riemst, J., “Eenige bijzonderheden omtrent straten, pleinen en bewoners van het oude Tricht”, in: Publications de la Société Historique et Archéologique dans le Limbourg, 43 (1907), 39-369; PSHAL 67 (1931), 187-232; PSHAL 68 (1932), 71-112; PSHAL 69 (1933), 63-86.